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Title: Dave McGowan battling aggressive cancer: wrote 9/11 was a lie on 9/12
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URL Source: https://truthandshadows.wordpress.c ... /05/23/mcgowan-battles-cancer/
Published: Nov 21, 2015
Author: Truth and Shadows
Post Date: 2015-11-21 01:18:43 by christine
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This post features the full text of an article Dave McGowan wrote on Sept. 12, 2001, questioning the official story of the “terrorist attacks” 9/11. This is preceded by introductions from me and from Truth and Shadows contributor Sheila Casey. ** Since the publication of this article, it has come to my attention that Dave McGowan is in desperate need of funds so that he can cope with the effects of his illness. His brother Craig wrote on Facebook: “As far as the donations, most of you know that dave has been struggling financially the last 8 months and made less than 5 grand total on the book “Weird Scenes.” Our family is, for no better term, poor, or, in the lower middle class realm, if that even is a class…Like David, I have a very difficult time asking for financial help from others so I’m not going to ask anyone here. Does david need the help? yes. Will he mention it? absolutely not.” You can donate to Dave via his web site, which has a donate button at the top.(CM) McGowan: insight and courage. McGowan: insight and courage. Craig McKee: We received some terrible news yesterday that Dave McGowan, one of the most important and engaging researchers in the “conspiracy” field, is seriously ill. He has a very aggressive and advanced form of cancer – affecting his lungs, liver, and bones – and has a very small chance of recovery. I thought it appropriate to honor Dave and his continuing contribution to truth seeking and to let people know just how valuable a writer he is, by reprinting a piece below that he wrote just a day after 9/11. He knew right away that the official story we were being fed about the so-called “terrorist attacks” did not add up. It doesn’t have all the answers, but it makes an excellent start on asking the right questions. The first thing I read from McGowan was his series on the Apollo Moon missions called “Wagging the Moondoggie.” This amazing 14-part series is what finally convinced me that the Moon landings never took place. What struck me was not only his insight but his wit. Very dry, which is the best kind. In addition to what became a whole series on 9/11, I was also blown away by series on the Boston Marathon “bombing” and dark side of the music scene in Laurel Canyon in the 1960s (which became a book). Other books he has written include Programmed to Kill, Understanding the F-Word: American Fascism and the Politics of Illusion, and Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don’t Want You to See. Sheila Casey: One of my heroes has received a devastating diagnosis and I’m heartbroken. I had assumed we would have many more years of wit, insight, and terrific investigative journalism from dissident writer Dave McGowan. Like Craig, the first thing I read by Dave was “Wagging the Moondoggie.” I distinctly recall my feeling of dismay when I saw the length of it: 14 chapters in a none-too-friendly page layout. But a few pages in, and I was immersed, and steadily coming to the inescapable conclusion that those wacky conspiracy theorists I’d heard about all my life, the ones who believe we didn’t go to the moon, were right. But Dave doesn’t just do great research and display impeccable logic. He writes with so much wit that he can make the most incredible deceptions (such as the faked moon landings) seem downright hilarious. For example: “There was much about the Apollo flights that was truly miraculous, but arguably the greatest technological achievement was the design of the lunar modules. Has anyone, by the way, ever really taken a good look at one of those contraptions? I mean a detailed, up-close look? I’m guessing that the vast majority of people have not, but luckily we can quickly remedy that situation because I happen to have some really good, high-resolution images that come directly from the good people at NASA. While what is depicted in the images may initially appear, to the untrained eye, to be some kind of mock-up that someone cobbled together in their backyard to make fun of NASA, I can assure you that it is actually an extremely high-tech manned spacecraft capable of landing on the surface of the Moon. And incredibly enough, it was also capable of blasting off from the Moon and flying 69 miles back up into lunar orbit! Though not immediately apparent, it is actually a two-stage craft, the lower half (the part that looks like a tubular aluminum framework covered with Mylar and old Christmas wrapping paper) being the descent stage, and the upper half (the part that looks as though it was cobbled together from old air conditioning ductwork and is primarily held together, as can be seen in the close-up, with zippers and gold tape) being the ascent stage. The upper half, of course, is the more sophisticated portion, being capable of lifting off and flying with enough power to break free of the Moon’s gravity and reach lunar orbit. It also, of course, possessed sophisticated enough navigational capabilities for it to locate, literally out in the middle of fucking nowhere, the command module that it had to dock with in order to get the astronauts safely back to Earth. It also had to catch that command module, which was orbiting the Moon at a leisurely 4,000 miles per hour. But we’ll get to all that a little later. I think we can all agree for now that such a sleek, stylish, well-designed craft would have no problem flying with that kind of power, precision and stability.” Yes, this is a real lunar module – courtesy of NASA. Poster Comment: I actually laughed out loud at Dave's description of the lunar module. He's a great truthseeker, researcher, and writer. So sad to hear that he is in a coma and doesn't have much longer to live.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Stone used to have a poster at his site named mcgowanjm who was an encyclopedia of links and information who's been around the www longer than I. He'd have made a really good addition to 4um, but I haven't seen him in a couple years. I wonder if they're related. Anyway, I'm going to the link provided and kick in a little cash, cuz it's for a really good cause. Have you ever seen Turtle's web page, Christine? He actually has a tin cup (tip jar) where you can make donations to his poverty stricken ass.
any halfway decent writer can make very easy money if they are capable of attracting any kind of interest, following or audience. They would not have to beg for donations. Trust me, i know. ;-) writing is a very fun and lucrative side gig. the best part is seeing who reads it all, which never ceases to absolutely astound me.
writing is a very fun and lucrative side gig. the best part is seeing who reads it all, which never ceases to absolutely astound me. Hold the phone -- care to tell us how? I've just managed to finish listening to CIA Hippie Mind Control: Inside Laurel Canyon with Dave McGowan. Info is repetitive but has striking truth gems like the very end where they wonder at the fact that the stars of the hippie love and pop music movement were never drafted. This has never even occurred to me. The whole wild thesis preceding it sounds less crazy in view of it. Thanks reminding us of him. Hope the family can pull on through.
#8. To: NeoconsNailed (#6)
Well for me, the people I read and respected for years started publishing / linking to my work. It actually was a building up a network of like minded folks who, when one outfit publishes, it leads to another, and another, and suddenly you're accepted & legitimized so to speak. In the aerly days at times even those squabbling with each other would all publish my stuff because I don't really get into infighting . Even when I criticize Jones validly, he addressed it on air yet still publishes more stuff and yes, acknowledges. That he's familiar with my work & that I've done a lot of good work. Yet I still make fun for example when he says he's going to izzy or his response about zyklon b, LoL. But you see its not a hatred or mean disdain of him or obsession with anyone personally. Anyway, once you have a mailing list of contacts you send them you're stuff as well as social media (which I've never really done much of) join google adsense or another ad program and if you get traffic the money will ad up. Youtube videos actually earn much more than writing but I like writing more.
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#3. To: Obnoxicated, christine (#1)
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Have you ever seen Turtle's web page, Christine? He actually has a tin cup (tip jar) where you can make donations to his poverty stricken ass.
#6. To: Artisan (#3)
any halfway decent writer can make very easy money if they are capable of attracting any kind of interest, following or audience. They would not have to beg for donations. Trust me, i know. ;-)
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